Overview
From Merchandising and Marketing – Product Development and Design, through to Supply Chain and Space Planning – our mission is to bring stylish wardrobe, home and beauty essentials to our customers via an easy, inspiring shopping experience online and in store that will delight them every time. To stay close to customers, we expect our support teams to come into the office three days a week. We think that learning comes from working alongside each other, and that spending time with our teams makes us more creative and connected. It also means we can solve problems as soon as they arise, build trust, and get closer to our colleagues.
Responsibilities
- Take full ownership for budgeting, promotional and clearance markdown, in-season trading and exit decisions and intake and volume plan.
- Manage ongoing stock planning.
- Provide reporting on supplier performance against KPIs.
- Manage promotional and clearance markdown.
- Manage in-season and exit trading.
- Coordinate stock allocation to stores.
Qualifications
- Print Working to at least Assistant Merchandiser level at a major retailer.
- Passionate about M&S and the menswear product range – confident initiating trading actions.
- Technical knowledge of the end-to-end buy-to-store process.
- Experience of using the relevant IT support systems.
- Strong numerical, analytical and interpretive skills.
- Ability to initiate and build strong relationships with Design, Buying and Technology.
- Strong communication and influencing skills.
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangement.
Inclusive Environment
Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working. If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.
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